For Immediate Release:  10/13/06 

Greenville College Homecoming and Parents' Weekend Set for October 20-22

Concerts, Dedications and Sporting Events Planned

GREENVILLE, ILL. - A Friday morning Homecoming chapel featuring Greenville native and CPA Paul Donnell, various sporting events, and concerts highlighting GC talent, Fundamental Elements, Redding, and Keegan John and much more highlight the annual Homecoming and Parents' Weekend Friday through Sunday, October 20-22, at Greenville College.

Activities for the public begin Friday, October 20, with Homecoming chapel at the Whitlock Music Center. Greenville native Paul Donnell will be awarded the college's young alumnus award and the give the chapel address. Donnell, a CPA working for the elite accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, was recently promoted to the position of manager within the highly exclusive Global Capital Markets group of the firm.

A weekend of Whitlock Music Center dedications begins Friday evening at 7:30 pm with the Seiler piano dedication.

At 9:00 pm the Men's Alumni Volleyball game will be held in the H.J. Long Gymnasium.

A full schedule of activities is planned for Saturday. The day begins at 8:o0 a.m. with the Panther 5k. Anyone can participate for a $15 registration fee, which covers prizes and a commemorative t-shirt, with all monies raised being donated to the Bond county Habitat for Humanity project. Participants should gather in the newly remodeled student union between 7:30-8:00 a.m. to register.

Other sporting events on Saturday will be held throughout the day. At 9 a.m. the men's alumni soccer game, the women's alumni volleyball, and the women's alumni softball game kick off. At 11 a.m. athletic events continue with the women's alumni soccer game and women's alumni basketball game.

At 11 a.m. the college will dedicate the Whitlock Music Center. A generous gift by the Whitlock family provided the necessary resources to complete the college's Music Center, a three story facility that houses both contemporary and traditional music programs in a labyrinth of practice rooms, spacious faculty offices, high-tech classrooms and the James E. Wilson Recital hall.

Homecoming activities continue with women's and men's soccer matches, which will be played at the Francis Field complex as they face Westminster. The women's game kicks off at 1 p.m. and the men's game follows at 3 p.m.

The G.C. Panther football team will host MacMurray at 1 p.m. on the football field.

At 6 p.m. the college will continue the weekend of Music Center dedications by dedicating the James E. Wilson recital hall as a tribute to long-time former choir director James Wilson.

To wrap up Saturday's sporting events, the men's basketball team will host an alumni game in H.J. Long Gymnasium. The matchup of the alumni and the men's basketball team occurs at 7:00 p.m.

Completing the Saturday events will be a concert with Fundamental Elements, Redding, and Keegan John, all featuring GC alumni and students, held in the Blackroom at 8:30 p.m.

Special events for students actually begin Tuesday, October 17, and continue throughout the week. The highlight of the students' week occurs on Tuesday, with the annual Homecoming banquet. Each year the Homecoming banquet sees the crowing of the king and queen. This year's banquet will feature a Homecoming dance, the first in the school's history.

For further information on Homecoming and Parents' Weekend, visit www.greenville.edu. Questions may also be directed to Alex Schmidt at (618) 664-6514.

Greenville College is a four-year accredited Christian liberal arts school with more than 1400 traditional undergraduate, graduate, and adult degree completion students.  Founded in 1892 and affiliated with the Free Methodist Church, the college is located in Greenville, Illinois, 45 miles east of St. Louis.

CONTACT:

Christy Grimes ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )
Assistant Director of Public Relations
618-664-6515
Greenville College